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    <h1>Noda Time User Guide</h1>
    <p>This guide provides documentation to complement the API reference.
It is recommended that you read at least the first few pages before
starting to develop using Noda Time. If you have suggestions or
questions which are likely to be discussion-based, please post to
the <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/noda-time">mailing list</a>. For more specific "How do I solve problem X?"
questions, please ask on <a href="http://stackoverflow.com">Stack Overflow</a> using the <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/nodatime">nodatime tag</a>.</p>

<h2>Table of contents</h2>

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<li><a href="rationale.html">Why does Noda Time exist?</a></li>
<li><a href="installation.html">Installation</a></li>
<li><a href="concepts.html">Core concepts</a></li>
<li><a href="type-choices.html">Choosing (and converting) between types</a></li>
<li><a href="core-types.html">Core types quick reference</a></li>
<li><a href="design.html">Design philosophy and conventions</a></li>
<li><a href="arithmetic.html">Date and time arithmetic</a></li>
<li><a href="text.html">Text handling</a></li>
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<li><a href="offset-patterns.html">Patterns for Offset values</a></li>
<li><a href="instant-patterns.html">Patterns for Instant values</a></li>
<li><a href="localtime-patterns.html">Patterns for LocalTime values</a></li>
<li><a href="localdate-patterns.html">Patterns for LocalDate values</a></li>
<li><a href="localdatetime-patterns.html">Patterns for LocalDateTime values</a></li>
<li><a href="period-patterns.html">Patterns for Period values</a></li>
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<li><a href="bcl-conversions.html">BCL conversions</a></li>
<li><a href="serialization.html">Serialization</a></li>
<li><a href="testing.html">Unit testing with Noda Time</a></li>
<li><a href="threading.html">Threading</a></li>
<li><a href="tzdb.html">Updating the time zone database</a></li>
<li><a href="mono.html">Mono support</a></li>
<li><a href="limitations.html">Limitations of Noda Time</a></li>
<li><a href="roadmap.html">Current roadmap</a></li>
<li><a href="versions.html">Version history</a></li>
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<h2>Resources</h2>

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<li><a href="http://noda-time.googlecode.com">Project home page</a></li>
<li><a href="../developer/index.html">Developer guide</a> - a guide to developing Noda Time itself</li>
<li><a href="http://noda-time.googlecode.com/hg/docs/userguide/index.html">Online user guide</a> (the latest version of this page)</li>
<li><a href="http://noda-time.googlecode.com/hg/docs/api/Index.html">Latest API documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="../api/Index.html">Relative API documentation</a> (if you're viewing this page
offline, it's the offline API docs)</li>
<li><a href="http://noda-time.blogspot.com">Blog</a></li>
<li><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/noda-time">Mailing list</a></li>
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